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Parties, Elections and Electoral Contests - Competition and Contamination Effects (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Parties, Elections and Electoral Contests - Competition and Contamination Effects (Hardcover, New Ed)
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According to the Duvergerian theories, in the long run, only viable
parties are expected to stand for elections. Non-viable parties
should join a pre-electoral coalition with another party or
withdraw from competition entirely. Why then do non-viable
political parties throughout the world systematically continue
presenting candidates? This book responds to this evident but
unanswered question to create a general theory about deviations
from the Duvergerian equilibrium. The author argues that, far from
being just a random or irrational decision, the choice of political
parties to present candidates when they do not expect to achieve
representation can be explained by the overlap of electoral arenas,
that generate opportunities for viable parties to present
candidates where they are non-viable. In sum, political parties
will take advantage of their viability in an arena to present
candidacies in other arenas where they do not have chances to
become viable. The building of this new theory on electoral
contamination allows the construction of a new and more
encompassing conceptual framework through which to make sense of
what, until now, has been understood as disparate phenomena and
contributes to a better understanding of political parties'
strategic behaviour.
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